From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 9 2: 9:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.CX (dsl081-006-051.dsl-isp.net [64.81.6.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE4EB37C314 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 02:08:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: (from john@localhost) by server.baldwin.CX (8.9.3/8.9.3) id FAA00616; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 05:08:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from john) Message-Id: <200006090908.FAA00616@server.baldwin.CX> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000607190521.A2138@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 05:08:21 -0400 (EDT) Organization: BSD, Inc. From: John Baldwin To: K.J.Bosschaart@tue.nl Subject: Re: Splash Screen Cc: FreeBSD-Questions , DuBBs2ooo Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 07-Jun-00 Karel J. Bosschaart wrote: > On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 11:15:16AM -0400, DuBBs2ooo wrote: >> >> I tried setting up the splash screen in the /boot/defaults/loader.conf file > ^^^^^^^^^^ > This file is not meant to be changed. Use /boot/loader.conf to put your > overrides in there (it does not exist by default). My /boot/loader.conf > looks like this: > > splash_bmp_load=YES > bitmap_load=YES > bitmap_name=beastie_nebula.bmp > > where beastie_nebula.bmp is a 320x200 bitmap with 8 bit color depth, > residing in /boot. For larger resolutions you also need to load the vesa > module (up to 1024x768). See 'man loader.conf' for more options and info. > >> and when the system rebooted it didn't display the screen, a message >> flashed on about it but my system booted too fast and I didn't get the >> chance to catch what it said...out of curiosity, what size should the >> splash bitmap be and what do the settings in the splash screen section of >> the loader.conf file need to be set to? >> > Sizes are rather limited; www.baldwin.cx/splash used to contain a set of splash > screens that worked, but it appears down now. It is only down temporarily. You can get to a mirror of it at http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/splash/ > Karel. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message